RFID breakthroughs poised to transform healthcare

Early forays into the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging in the healthcare industry were plagued with issues.1 Despite advances over the past decade and the technology’s power to enhance patient safety and enable greater efficiencies, Andrew Meyer, Director of Global Standards at GS1 US, said many healthcare organizations remain “gun shy” about RFID.

“In the early 2000s, RFID was an expensive proposition that didn’t work as well as it could,” he noted. “But the landscape has changed. The …

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